Creative Commons License
Diptych with the Virgin and Child and Saint Nicholas
(Byzantium and Early Russia)
The outside of this small pectoral diptych icon is decorated with flowers and a cross. The inside contains on one side an image of the Virgin and Child flanked by two worshipers and on the other an image of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker flanked by Christ and the Virgin.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
[Purchased in Russia]; George Way Williams, Detroit, Michigan, 1919-1920, by purchase; Mrs. J. Henry Dasenbrook, Baltimore, ca. 1980, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1985, by gift.
Geographies
Russia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 x D: 2 3/16 in. (2.5 x 5.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Henry Dasenbrock, 1985
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.2617